Pressley v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1999

Citation profile

cited by 33 later decisions

states following

December 2015

most recently cited

33 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably 791 So. 2d 979 - Jackson v. State (2000), Johnson v. State (2001)

33 state decisions

Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

Relationships

Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Batson v. Kentucky · Edwards v. Arizona · Witherspoon v. Illinois · Lockett v. Ohio

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“' The Supreme Court has expressly stated that juror bias does not have to be proven with `unmistakable clarity.' Darden v. Wainwright, 477 U.S. 168 , 106 S.Ct. 2464 , 91 L.Ed.2d 144 (1986).”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 790 So. 2d 267 - Griffin v. State · 908 So. 2d 273 - Smith v. State
“"Informing the jury that the legislature may change the definition of life imprisonment without parole in the future is improper. `It has long been the law of this State that comments upon the probability or possibility of what might happen under a particular sentence, falling outside the evidence and the law of the case, constitute improper argument.' Ex parte Rutledge, 482 So.2d 1262, 1264 (Ala.1984); Eaton v. State, 278 Ala. 224 , 177 So.2d 444 (1965); see also Murray v. State, 359 So.2d 1178 (Ala.Cr.App.1978)."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. 914 So. 2d 372 - Minor v. State · 791 So. 2d 979 - Jackson v. State
“`may only consider the facts contained in the record on appeal, and it may not presume any facts not shown by that record and make them a ground for reversal.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Johnson v. State · 914 So. 2d 372 - Minor v. State

How this case has been treated — in progress

Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.